Plagiarism: Real Sex

I was lent this book and read it to be nice and because I thought it might be good to give to other people. Ha! my arrogance has been floored! It's a great book.

"What sits at the center of Christian sexual ethics is not a negative view of sex . . . Rather, the heart of the Christian story about sex is a vigorously positive statement: sex was created for marriage.
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God's vision for humanity is established in the Garden of Eden, and the uniqueness and one-ness of the marriage relationship between Adam and Eve is inaugurated in Genesis 1-2. In the first chapters of Genesis, we learn that God created a relationship between Adam and Eve. . . . In a graphic speech, Adam speaks of his and Eve's becoming one flesh.
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The no to sex outside marriage seems arbitrary and cruel apart from the Creator's yes to sex within marriage.
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Marriage . . . instructs the church in what to look for when the kingdom comes - eternal, intimate union.

And singleness prepares us for the other piece of the end of time, the age when singleness trumps marriage. Singleness tutors us in our primary, heavenly relationship with one another: siblings in Christ.
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Singleness tells us . . . of a radical dependence on God.
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In singleness we see not only where our true dependence lies, but also who and what our real family is. Singleness reminds Christians that the church is our primary family.
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Single Christians remind the rest of us that our truest, realest, most lasting relationship is that of sibling: even husband and wife are first and foremost brother and sister. Baptismal vows are prior to wedding vows."

From Real Sex: the naked truth about chastity by Lauren F. Winner